On his Internet-only radio show Focal Point on Wednesday, Bryan Fischer, the national spokesman for the American Family Association, claimed that no man can be trusted with political power unless he is a creationist
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There's a very clear correlation between how quickly utterly outdated, wrongheaded, or just plain stupid beliefs slide into oblivion and how loudly the ones who cling to them kick, scream, and dig their heels in to try to stop it.
Conservatives are quick to hold to what the Founding Fathers thought and believed for this country...until it doesn't serve them anymore. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", although a lot of these religious Christian fundamentalists would seek to prevent everyone but Christians and perhaps Jewish people from practicing their own religions.
They'll also violate the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) in the pursuit of running undocumented immigrants (but only the brown ones) out of the country; the Eight Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) as long as their private prisons are still making money; the Ninth Amendment (not listing rights in the Constitution doesn't mean that they don't exist) when trying to argue that women don't have a right to privacy because the Constitution doesn't say so; and especially the idea that federal law supersedes state law, if they happen not to like the federal law.
Sometimes I wish these idiots could just start a country of their own and go live there, instead of constantly trying to ruin this one for the rest of us. (Of course, I know that's not practicable, but a girl can dream!)
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They'll also violate the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) in the pursuit of running undocumented immigrants (but only the brown ones) out of the country; the Eight Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) as long as their private prisons are still making money; the Ninth Amendment (not listing rights in the Constitution doesn't mean that they don't exist) when trying to argue that women don't have a right to privacy because the Constitution doesn't say so; and especially the idea that federal law supersedes state law, if they happen not to like the federal law.
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